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2010-03-02
Matrox Video Products Group is now shipping Matrox Convert DVI, an SD/HD SDI scan converter with high-end features priced at just $995 US. Matrox Convert DVI lets broadcasters easily and economically take the computer-based content that is quickly becoming a key part of the nightly news to air. It's ideal for creating broadcast video from computer applications such as Skype, YouTube, Google Earth, video games, and web browser sessions, as well as citizen journalists' mobile phone videos.
Matrox Convert DVI

2010-02-16
Matrox Video Products Group today announced Matrox Vetura Playback, a new application on the Mac for convenient playback of H.264 and .mov files using any of the Matrox MXO2 I/O devices. Field journalists equipped with a Matrox MXO2 device that includes the Matrox MAX H.264 encoding accelerator can shoot and edit their stories, then quickly encode to a very high quality H.264 file faster then realtime. Via any internet connection, the small H.264 file can be efficiently uploaded to headquarters then ingested to a video server or played directly to air using another MXO2 device and the Matrox Vetura Playback application.
Matrox MXO2

2010-01-29
Matrox Video Products Group today announced an eleven-city U.S. road tour where representatives from Matrox, Apple, and leading camera manufacturers will share tips and tricks to improve all aspects of attendees' video production workflow - from shooting, through editing, to final delivery in today's most popular formats.
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2010-01-18
Matrox Video Products Group today announced support for the Matrox CompressHD H.264 encoding accelerator card in conjunction with the Matrox Axio LE and RT.X2 realtime editing platforms.
Matrox CompressHD / Matrox Axio LE / Matrox RT.X2

2009-11-25
Matrox Video Products Group today announced Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 4.2 support on the Mac for Matrox MXO2 Mini, MXO2 LE, MXO2 and MXO2 Rack. These devices provide all the features of an I/O devices and a sturdy breakout box with the added advantage of portability. They can be easily moved among the Mac Pros in a facility or taken on the road with MacBook Pros. Users get highly-reliable, broadcast-quality input/output and HDMI video monitoring with unique Matrox calibration controls including blue-only. They also benefit from a wide variety of HD and SD workflows with Adobe Premiere Pro thanks to Matrox MXO2's 10-bit hardware up/down/cross scaling engine and support for a wealth of file-based formats and industry-standard codecs.
Matrox MXO2

2009-11-17
Matrox Video Products Group today announced Windows 7 support for Matrox MXO2 LE, MXO2 and MXO2 Rack. The Matrox MXO2 family of I/O devices streamlines editing with Adobe CS4 Production Premium. These devices provide all the features of an I/O card in a sturdy breakout box with professional audio and video connectivity. The Matrox MXO2 devices are also available with Matrox MAX technology for accelerated H.264 file creation using Adobe Media Encoder.
Matrox MXO2 LE / Matrox MXO2 / Matrox MXO2 Rack

2009-10-26
Matrox Video Products Group today announced that Matrox MXO2 LE, an HDMI, SDI, and analog I/O device for the Mac, is now available from authorized dealers worldwide. Matrox MXO2 LE streamlines editing with Apple Final Cut Studio on Mac Pros and MacBook Pros. It provides all the features of an I/O card in a sturdy, portable breakout box with professional audio and video connectivity. Matrox MXO2 LE is also available with Matrox MAX technology for faster than realtime H.264 file creation using professional application such as Apple Compressor and Telestream Episode.
Matrox MXO2 LE

2009-10-09
Matrox Video Products Group today announced that Windows drivers for Matrox CompressHD and Matrox MXO2 Mini with the MAX option are now available as a free download from the Matrox website for registered owners. Matrox MAX technology uses a dedicated hardware processor to accelerate the creation of HD H.264 files for Blu-ray, Flash, YouTube, and the web. By using specialized hardware acceleration, jobs are finished with amazing speed and system resources are liberated for other tasks. Ease of use is ensured through direct integration with Adobe Media Encoder and Adobe Premiere Pro on the PC.
Matrox CompressHD / Matrox MXO2 Mini

2009-10-07
Matrox Video Products Group today announced support for Snow Leopard across its line of Mac I/O and H.264 encoding products including Matrox MXO2, Matrox MXO2 LE, Matrox MXO2 Rack, Matrox MXO2 Mini, and Matrox CompressHD. The version 1.7 software implements 32- and 64-bit support for the new Mac OS X v10.6. It is now available as a free download from the Matrox website to all registered users.
Matrox MXO2 / Matrox CompressHD

2009-09-10
Matrox Video Products Group today announced Matrox MXO2 LE, an HDMI, SDI, and analog I/O device based on the award-winning Matrox MXO2 that streamlines editing with Apple Final Cut Studio on Mac Pros and MacBook Pros. Matrox MXO2 LE provides all the features of an I/O card in a sturdy, portable breakout box with professional audio and video connectivity. Matrox MXO2 LE is also available with Matrox MAX technology for faster than realtime H.264 file creation using professional application such as Apple Compressor and Telestream Episode.
Matrox MXO2 LE

2009-09-10
Matrox Video Products Group today announced that release 1.6 for Matrox MXO2, Matrox MXO2 Rack, Matrox MXO2 Mini, and Matrox CompressHD is now available as a free download from the Matrox website to all registered users. The Matrox products will be demonstrated at IBC 2009 on stand 7.B29. This release implements support for the new Final Cut Studio including Final Cut Pro 7 with Apple's new ProRes 422 (LT), ProRes 422 (Proxy) formats and Compressor 3.5.
Matrox MXO2 / Matrox MXO2 Rack / Matrox MXO2 Mini / Matrox CompressHD

2009-09-10
Telestream Episode exploits the power of Matrox MAX technology to deliver H.264 HD files faster than realtime
Matrox MAX technology

2009-09-10
Matrox announces support for Softron's ingest and playout applications with Matrox MXO2 I/O device
Matrox MXO2

2009-09-10
Matrox announces support for ToolsOnAir Just:In video capture application with the Matrox MXO2 I/O device
Matrox MXO2

2009-09-10
Matrox Video Products Group today announced immediate full-production availability of four new products in the Matrox DSX line of developer products that will be demonstrated at IBC 2009 on stand 7.B29.
Matrox DSX

2009-09-10
Etere S.r.l. exploits the power of Matrox DSX developer products
Matrox DSX

2009-09-10
Boinx Software today announced that the popular I/O devices Matrox MXO and MXO2 are now certified to provide input/output, monitoring, and format conversion for BoinxTV. This offers video producers an affordable and highly portable solution for creating professional TV shows, delivering an SDI signal in broadcast-quality.
Matrox MXO / Matrox MXO2

2009-09-02
Matrox Video Products Group today announced Matrox Convert DVI, an SD/HD SDI scan converter with high-end features priced at just $995 US. Matrox Convert DVI lets users convert high-resolution DVI sources into HD or SD video for broadcast, display, and recording. It outputs the entire computer screen or lets the user focus on details in a region of interest of any size within the larger resolution. Premium features such as genlock with timing offset controls, an advanced downscaling algorithm, a flicker reduction filter, and one-to-one pixel mapping ensure optimal quality and flexibility.
Matrox Convert DVI

2009-06-29
Matrox MXO2 Mini now provides inexpensive HDMI monitoring for AVCHD editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and CineForm NeoScene
Matrox MXO2 Mini

2009-06-15
Matrox MXO2 product line now available with Matrox MAX technology for faster than realtime High Definition H.264 file creation
Matrox MXO2

2009-05-28
Matrox Video Products Group today announced that Matrox CompressHD, the first implementation of Matrox MAX technology in an H.264 accelerator card for the Mac, is now shipping.
Matrox CompressHD (Mac)

2009-05-20
Matrox Video Products Group today announced that Matrox MXO2 Mini, a new version of the award-winning Matrox MXO2 I/O device is now shipping. Matrox MXO2 Mini can be used with Mac and PC laptop and desktop systems and popular applications including Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop, and many more. It provides capture via HDMI, analog component, S-Video, and composite. Users can convert standard definition videos to high definition, or vice versa, while capturing or playing out, using Matrox MXO2 Mini's high-quality dedicated hardware scaler. Simultaneous playback of high definition and standard definition video is supported. In addition, Matrox MXO2 Mini turns an inexpensive HDMI screen into a professional-grade video monitor thanks to Matrox's unique color calibration tool. This product also makes it easy to edit AVCHD footage by capturing into an edit-friendly compressed or uncompressed format.
Matrox MXO2 Mini

2009-04-20
Matrox Video Products Group today announced Matrox CompressHD, the first implementation of Matrox MAX technology in an H.264 accelerator card for the Mac, priced at just $495 US. Matrox MAX technology uses a dedicated hardware processor to accelerate the creation of H.264 files for mobile devices, the web and Blu-ray discs. By using specialized hardware acceleration, jobs are finished with amazing speed and system resources are liberated for other tasks. Matrox CompressHD works in systems with or without a video I/O device. Ease of use is ensured through direct integration with Apple Compressor on the Mac. As an added benefit, the Matrox MAX technology allows direct export to higher-quality H.264 Blu-ray compliant files from Compressor.
Matrox CompressHD (Mac)

2009-04-20
Matrox Video Products Group today announced Matrox CompressHD, the first implementation of Matrox MAX technology in an H.264 accelerator card for Windows, priced at just $495 US. Matrox MAX technology uses a dedicated hardware processor to accelerate the creation of H.264 files for mobile devices, the web and Blu-ray discs. By using specialized hardware acceleration, jobs are finished with amazing speed and system resources are liberated for other tasks. Matrox CompressHD works in systems with or without a video I/O device. Ease of use is ensured through direct integration with Adobe Media Encoder software on the PC.
Matrox CompressHD (PC)

2009-04-20
Matrox Video Products Group today announced Matrox MXO2 Mini, a new version of the award-winning Matrox MXO2 I/O device. It can be used with Mac and PC laptop and desktop systems and popular applications including Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop, and many more. It provides capture and playback of high definition video via HDMI and analog component; or NTSC and PAL via analog component S-Video, and composite. Users can convert standard definition videos to high definition, or vice versa, while capturing or playing out, using Matrox MXO2 Mini's high-quality dedicated hardware scaler. Matrox MXO2 Mini turns an inexpensive HDMI screen into a professional-grade video monitor thanks to Matrox's unique color calibration tool. This product also makes it easy to edit AVCHD footage by capturing into an edit-friendly compressed or uncompressed format.
Matrox MXO2 Mini

2009-04-20
Matrox Video Products Group today announced versions of Matrox MXO2 and Matrox MXO2 Rack that will incorporate Matrox MAX technology for faster than realtime high definition H.264 file creation. The unique Matrox MAX technology uses a dedicated hardware processor to accelerate the creation of H.264 files for Blu-ray, the web, and mobile devices. By using specialized hardware acceleration, jobs are finished with amazing speed and system resources are liberated for other tasks. Quality and flexibility are ensured through direct integration with Apple Compressor on the Mac. As an added benefit, the Matrox MAX technology allows direct export to higher-quality H.264 Blu-ray compliant files from Compressor.
Matrox MAX technology / Matrox MXO2 / Matrox MXO2 Rack

2009-04-20
Matrox Video Products Group today announced support for Toshiba Imaging's new HDTV IK-HR1S camera with the Matrox X.AVCio video capture card. Until now, most medical video recording has been done in either SD or HDV formats. The few available full-HD recording devices were prohibitively expensive in many applications. Now, with the Matrox X.AVCio H264 capture card, a developer can easily create a price competitive video recording device that grabs images from HD-SDI in 1080i or 720p and saves them as H.264 files in MOV or MP4 formats.
Matrox X.AVCio

2009-04-09
Matrox Video Products Group today announced that release 1.3.1 for the Matrox MXO2 product line is now available as a free download from the Matrox website to all registered users. This release implements important new features including HD-SDI closed captioning support and RED workflow support.
Matrox MXO2

2009-03-26
Streambox, Inc. today announced a partnership with Matrox, an industry-leading provider in the field of HD and SD digital video hardware and software for realtime editing, audio/video input/output, capture/playout servers, clip/still stores, and CGs. Streambox and Matrox have integrated Matrox's MXO2 SDI device with the Streambox ACT-L3 Software Encoder to enable SDI-based video capture and streaming for Mac OS laptops running Streambox encoding software.
Matrox MXO2

2009-03-26
Matrox Video Products Group today announced that release 1.3 for the Matrox MXO2 product line is now available as a free download from the Matrox website to all registered users. This release brings users a host of new productivity features and workflow enhancements.
Matrox MXO2

2009-03-25
Matrox Video Products Group today announced that Matrox MXO2 Rack, a new version of the award-winning Matrox MXO2 I/O device for the Mac, is now shipping.
Matrox MXO2 Rack

2009-02-24
Matrox Video Products Group today announced that software release 4.0 for the Matrox Axio LE realtime HD and SD editing platform is now available for download on the Matrox website. Release 4.0 supports Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 software. In addition, it will make use of the expanded memory and storage management support in the Windows Vista 64-bit operating system to facilitate seamless creative workflow and efficient editing of long-form and multi-format HD projects.
Matrox Axio LE

2009-02-16
Matrox Video Products Group today announced Matrox MXO2 Rack, a new version of the award-winning Matrox MXO2 I/O device for the Mac. The 2RU-sized Matrox MXO2 Rack is designed for broadcast news operations, OB vans, and other environments where equipment must be rackmounted. It streamlines editing workflow with Apple Final Cut Studio on Mac Pros and MacBook Pros, providing broadcast-quality input/output, monitoring, and up/down/cross conversion. Users can benefit from file-based workflows with support for XDCAM, XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX, and P2 without transcoding. In addition, they are not limited to using a single codec as with some other I/O devices on the market. In HD for example, Matrox MXO2 Rack supports a variety of codecs including ProRes, ProRes422 HQ, DVCPRO HD, and uncompressed 8- and 10-bit.
Matrox MXO2 Rack

2009-02-03
Matrox Video Products Group today announced that new value-priced bundles of the Matrox RT.X2 and RT.X2 LE realtime editing platforms and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 are now available worldwide. The bundles include either the RT.X2 or RT.X2 LE realtime editing card with a professional breakout box, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Adobe Encore CS4, and Adobe OnLocation CS4.
Matrox RT.X2 / Matrox RT.X2 LE






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